Rainer Werner Fassbinder Quotes
Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
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The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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I wouldn't trivialize my existence into a hashtag.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.
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Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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Nothing matters except life and the love you make.
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OK, everybody, I got to get to Star Wars.
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When I'm working, I have a hard time switching off, and when I'm not working, I have a hard time thinking of ever wanting to work again.
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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
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In recent years we've seen an explosion of creative programming, and I think it represents a third golden age of television because the creators have more control over the story. The audience doesn't care about the platform. They care about the content.
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Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.
